Treasurer

Jennifer Ruiz, MD, CGP, AGPA-F

Dr. Jennifer Ruiz is a psychiatrist at Fenway Health in Boston, where she provides medication management, individual therapy and group therapy. She holds her Certified Group Psychotherapist designation and is a fellow of the AGPA as well as having done the psychodynamic psychotherapy fellowship in the Adams House at Faulkner Brigham hospital. She does teaching and clinical supervision of individual and group therapy and previously has led the T-group in the McLean/ MGH psychiatry residency and the co-facillitated the "COG" (continuous online group) at AGPA as well as several AGPA workshop presentations.

Jenn has held several positions at NSGP over her 15+ years of involvement, including co-chairs of the breakfast club and training committees, member on the Board of Directors, and editor of the newsletter. A mom of three girls, Jenn happily spends most of her free time with her family in Boston.

Secretary

Samantha Dorian, MDiv, MA

Samantha Dorian works in Providence, RI & Boston, MA. She is a candidate in the Clinical Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP) in Brookline, MA. She is a visual artist, a meditation teacher, and currently building her private practice while developing new groups as well as starting her foundation: SculptYourMind™ She sees adults, couples and runs workshops and facilitates groups. Samantha is experienced in conflict resolution, inter-religious dialogue and group dynamics; training she received at Harvard. As a meditation instructor as well as a group leader, she often works with people suffering from extreme states of psychosis. However, presently, she teaches meditation for the ILD Collaborative, for those suffering from lung disease. Samantha’s involvement with NSGP began when she attended her conference in 2019 after working with a group leader at the VA in Middletown, RI who had trained at NSGP. Samantha knows the benefits of group work are profound and long lasting. She firmly believes that groups provide the best possible experience to allow the shifts necessary for healing to occur when thoughts and feelings are put to language. The magic of words can transform the inner landscape.

Corey J Flanders, LMHC, MA, CGP

Corey Flanders is a mental health counselor and certified group psychotherapist with a private practice in Providence, RI. He began attending the NSGP annual conference in 2015 and absolutely loved the experiential components of group training. He went on to complete the Principles Course and the Experience Group at NSGP. He looks to expand his involvement with the NSGP community while building interest in group psychotherapy generally in Rhode Island. He is currently training at the Center for Group Studies in New York and leads a vibrant training group for therapists as well as a men’s group and a mixed gender process group.

Gabriela Pérez-Gil del Valle, LMHC, CGP, PsyD

Gabriela Pérez-Gil del Valle brings extensive experience in integrating psychotherapy with social and community-based work. For over twenty-five years, she has collaborated with Pina Palmera A.C., a community organization in Oaxaca, Mexico, serving primarily indigenous populations with disabilities.

Trained in Mexico in Humanistic, Gestalt, and Existential psychotherapies, Dr. Perez-Gil holds a specialization in group therapy. Her areas of expertise include addiction prevention, group desensitization, and group skills development.

She has taught extensively at conferences, universities, and throughout the Mexican school system. Clinically, she has worked as an in-home therapist for Latino children in crisis and their families, served for over a decade at the South End Community Health Center, and collaborated with Project Place to support incarcerated women. In that role, she also developed and led a group consultation model for staff at all levels, which ran for over six years.

Dr. Perez-Gil currently maintains a private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts, and earned her doctorate from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.